mike | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 11 2009 | microsoft, patents, geo, location, browser
It looks like I was granted a new patent in August - for my Location Based Browser patent I filed for Microsoft. What I don't understand is why there are two patents filed with the same disclosure. The claims are slightly different between the two. Perhaps they wanted to re-write the claims and split out the original filiing into two (but were able to keep the original priority date based on my disclosure).
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - May 31 2008 | microsoft, patents, firsts, steve ballmer
Searching the Google Patent database, it appears that this was the first patent FILED (March 1985) and ISSUED (May 1986) to Microsoft.
Among the inventors - Steve Ballmer!
The patent covers the packaging Microsoft used in some of their earlier products - a clam-shell acrylic box that would hinge open to become a stand for the manual that was shipped with the software.
I still have some of these in my basement.
ShareViewed: 1 Time - mike | Shared With: Everyone - Feb 21 2007 | programming, contests, microsoft, google, ip, patents
Both Microsoft and Google require coding contest entrants to sign over all the rights to their ideas to Microsoft or Google. I think that sucks. Isn't this just an example of big companies taking advantage of young people with few resources?
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